I explore consequences of publishing inconvenient information about the performance of public institutions. To understand how citizens would respond to such information, I conducted a survey experiment in which respondents were informed about sentencing disparity in the Czech Republic caused by...

Murray Rothbard and other anarcho-capitalists would abolish all governments. Individuals instead would voluntarily subscribe to the services of one of a number of competing private protective associations. This vision is a pipe dream. Building on the ideas of small-government classical liberals...

This paper examines the nature of quasi-markets and their significance for the delivery of public services. The nature of quasi-markets is outlined, along with the rationale for their use in the reform of the public services. That theoretical account is then complemented by more concrete...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo tiene como objetivo incorporar la noción de 'redes políticas' en el análisis de la actividad normativa, a los efectos de determinar si es posible modelar patrones de interacción entre los actores en el proceso político, no sólo en el proceso de...

This Article is a first-of-its-kind application of public choice theory to recently developing theories of virtue jurisprudence. Particularly, this Article focuses on not-yet-developed theories of aretaic (or virtue-centered) legislation. This Article speculates what the contours of such...

Spanish abstract: El registro Proof of Humanity (PoH) se lanzó en 2021 junto con la organización autónoma decentralizada (DAO) de PoH. El registro de humanos “únicos y singulares” atrajo a más de 17.000 usuarios y sentó las bases para el surgimiento de lo que se presentó como “la...

Recent military engagements including Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom have created a tremendously large cohort of wounded warriors returning with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Indeed, PTSD is deemed a “signature” wound of these conflicts. Yet PTSD is as...

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive ones disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

Does providing information improve citizens' perception about government transparency? Does all information matter the same for shaping perceptions about the government? This paper addresses these questions in the context of an online randomized survey experiment conducted in Argentina. Results...

Uniformity, the use of a common accounting measurement, is an essential feature of financial reporting, yet its desirability has long been debated. We study a model in which firms decide whether to adopt either their local accounting methods or a common method, followed by an investor allocating...